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Civil Rights: Emmett Till/ Rosa Parks/ Protests/ Little Rock

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

  1. What was the belief system did the KKK follow?

a)

White supremacy

b)

Separate but Equal

c)

Equality

d)

Unionism

2.

Where was Emmett Till murdered?

a)

Chicago

b)

Arkansas

c)

Mississippi

d)

Montgomery

3.

What was tied to the neck of Emmett Till?

a)

Weights

b)

Cotton Gin Fan

c)

Anchor

d)

Rocks

4.

When was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

a)

1915

b)

1940

c)

1955

d)

1964

5.

Who led the Montgomery Bus boycott?

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

JFK

c)

Malcolm X

d)

Martin Luther King Jr

6.

What protest method is this?

a)

Freedom Ride

b)

Sit-in

c)

Boycott

d)

March

7.

What happened on a famous freedom ride?

a)

It broke down

b)

The KKK firebombed it

c)

Protestors set it alight

d)

It was abandoned

8.

What type of protest is this?

a)

Sit-in

b)

Freedom Ride

c)

Bus Boycott

d)

March

9.

Who was the black student to attend Little Rock High School?

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Elizabeth Eckford

c)

Ernest Green

d)

Emmett Till

10.

In what year were schools desegregated?

a)

1954

b)

1955

c)

1960

d)

1965

11.

Who is this?

a)

Eisenhower

b)

JFK

c)

Martin Luther King Jr

d)

Emmett Till

12.

Who is this?

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Elizabeth Eckford

c)

Mamie Bradley

d)

Melba Patillo

13.

What % of bus passengers were black Americans?

a)

25%

b)

50%

c)

75%

d)

90%

14.

Who was arrested for assassinating JFK?

a)

John Wilkes Booth

b)

Lee Harvey Oswald

c)

CIA

d)

Lyndon B Johnson

15.

What state had a literacy test for voting in 1965?

a)

Louisiana

b)

Georgia

c)

Mississippi

d)

Alabama

16.

Across how many cities did riots break out following MLK’s death?

a)

20

b)

100

c)

148

d)

300

17.

What statue did people meet at during the March on Washington?

a)

Empire State

b)

Lincoln Memorial

c)

Washington Monument

d)

Eiffel Tower

18.

When did MLK die?

a)

1900

b)

1963

c)

1968

d)

1965

19.

Who believed in separatism?

a)

Martin Luther King

b)

Malcolm X

c)

JFK

20.

When was the civil rights act passed?

a)

1960

b)

1964

c)

1980

d)

1988